A Systematic Review of Nursing Home Palliative Care Interventions: Characteristics and Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite recommendations to integrate palliative care into nursing home care, little is known about the most effective ways to meet this goal.

Objective

To examine the characteristics and effectiveness of nursing home interventions that incorporated multiple palliative care domains (eg, physical aspects of care-symptom management, and ethical aspects-advance care planning).

Design

Systematic review.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE via PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library's CENTRAL from inception through January 2019. We included all randomized and nonrandomized trials that compared palliative care to usual care and an active comparator. We assessed the type of intervention, outcomes, and the risk of bias.

Results

We screened 1167 records fo

SUBMITTER: Carpenter JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614729 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature